Tony Elumelu, Founder of Tony Elumelu Foundation and ICRC President, Peter Maurer Calls for a new Private Sector Led approach to humanitarian development in Africa Collaboration between humanitarian and the private sector is critical for impact-driven intervention At the just concluded Forum organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), key speakers Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony ... Read More »

Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of the Standard Bank Group, launches an integrated marketing campaign on its Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) application, with the dedicated code, *909#. The *909# USSD string affords customers the opportunity to access wallet and banking services such as (inter and intra bank transfers, airtime purchase, check balance, account opening and loans) while offering purchase ... Read More »

The Agege Local Government in Lagos State has given 100 artisans and traders N100, 000 each in its periodic empowerment scheme. Mr Ganiyu Egunjobi, the Executive Chairman of the council, presented the sums totalling N10 million to the beneficiaries drawn across the seven wards in the local government area. The ceremony was held on Sunday as part of activities to ... Read More »

  Many developing countries, cash has been the most prevalent mode of payment in Nigeria until 2012 when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced the cashless policy with the aim of promoting the use of electronic payment channels instead of cash. Since then, banking services in Nigeria have shifted from physical and tangible distribution to technology-enabled, such as internet, ... Read More »

Like it ignored the divine warning to offer Senator Bukola Saraki the ticket during the last presidential primary, and failed, the opposition political party, PDP, is yet on the road to what looks like another loss, as a new prophecy given by the same prophet, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, to PDP had been shunned. In his annual prophecy book, Warning ... Read More »

A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been raped by her teacher in Namtari, a community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Our correspondent gathered she was confirmed pregnant on Thursday by a referral centre that admitted her for care. Bashir Tahir, a member of the Adamawa Hope Center located at the state Specialist Hospital in Yola where the girl ... Read More »

Polaris Bank has unveiled its new Polaris Mobile Banking App and is offering customers, a 50% discount on all transfer fees for 30 days after registration on the app. The Bank disclosed that the new Polaris Mobile Banking App “is now available to users on both Google Play for Android devices and the Apple App Store for iOS devices”. To ... Read More »

  Some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State on Wednesday stormed the Lagos Assembly to protest against the emergence of Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Olu Omo as the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the union in the state. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions like: ‘We say yes to union constitution; “we ... Read More »

Engr. Musa Wada has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer for the November 16 governorship election. Musa Wada, a younger brother of the immediate past Governor Idris Wada, who also contested for the ticket, scored 748 votes to clinch the party ticket. He was closely followed by Abubakar Mohammed Ibrahim, the son of a former governor, Ibrahim ... Read More »

Bobrisky’s story is not easy to tell. The first problem is deciding what pronoun to use. By the circumstances of his birth, ‘he’ is the right pronoun, but by what Bobrisky has chosen, ‘she’ is correct. “Tani bro e? (Who is your bro?). I’m a fine babe,” Bobrisky once replied a commentator who referred to him as a man. There ... Read More »